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‘I sit alone and talk to myself’: a family ripped apart by Europe’s migration crisis
ByOkba Mohammad and Tom Levitt August 27, 2025

An Algerian mother blames people smugglers and opportunists for the death of both her daughters. Now she cares for four grandchildren aloneEach morning Zahia leaves the home she shares with her four grandchildren in the Algerian coastal city of Bou Ism…

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‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
ByAhmed Kamal Junina August 19, 2025

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matterI must admit: I write this piece while starving – too hungry to think clearly, too weak to sit upright for l…

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Sudan cholera outbreak kills 40 in a week as health centres overwhelmed
ByKat Lay, Global health correspondent August 14, 2025

MSF charity calls situation ‘beyond urgent’ as thousands seeking refuge from war rely on contaminated waterThe “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Fro…

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Truck drivers, doctors and bakers: ordinary Yemenis turn to veteran journalist when justice fails
BySaeed Al-Batati in Al-Mukalla, Yemen August 14, 2025

Fatehi Bin Lazreq has used social media, newspapers and radio to expose corruption and everyday injustices since the country’s civil war started a decade agoWhen dozens of gas tankers near Yemen’s southern city of Aden were held up at a checkpoint by s…

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Migrants swim from Morocco to Ceuta as officials say enclave ‘overwhelmed’
BySam Jones in Madrid August 12, 2025

Seven children reach shore as dozens of people intercepted on risky route, which authorities say is now used more oftenAbout 100 people, including several children, risked their lives by trying to swim from Morocco into Spain’s north African enclave of…

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From dentist to artist: Sudanese exile turns to photography as an outlet for trauma
ByKaamil Ahmed August 11, 2025

Hashim Nasr’s striking images are winning awards and gaining attention across the globe‘For me, red is always a representation of blood and losing people, so I tend to use this red fabric to represent our trauma.” The Sudanese photographer Hashim Nasr …

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From dentist to artist: Sudanese exile turns to photography as an outlet for trauma
ByKaamil Ahmed August 11, 2025

Hashim Nasr’s striking images are winning awards and gaining attention across the globe‘For me, red is always a representation of blood and losing people, so I tend to use this red fabric to represent our trauma.” The Sudanese photographer Hashim Nasr …

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Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians
ByMark Townsend August 7, 2025

Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimatesMore than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the …

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Israel’s assault on humanitarian norms | Letter
ByGuardian staff August 5, 2025

Dr Lee Mordechai and Prof Liat Kozma of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem respond to an article from a senior aid official in GazaWe are Israeli historians teaching in Jerusalem who have been writing publicly about the war since early 2024. The proces…

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Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
ByFarshid Aram and Rad Radan, for Zan Times August 4, 2025

Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, without a male ‘guardian’, they cannot work or rent a home, leaving them in poverty and open to abuseSafia* thought she had finally found safety …

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